We know about chorine and fluoride and heavy metals in tap water, but does your water have 1,2,3 Trichloropropane (1,2,3TCP)?
After all the news about water problems in Flint, Michigan, a reporter decided to actually read the “consumer confidence report” for her drinking water. And she found this footnote in tiny print:
And it’s not just her local community in Fresno, California. 1,2,3-TCP has been found in about a hundred public water systems in California.
But neither the state nor the federal EPA regulates 1,2,3-TCP in drinking water. So public utilities don’t have to test for it, filter it out, or advise their customers if it’s in the water.
Again, my best recommendation is to filter your drinking and bathing water at home, using a filter that removes a broad spectrum of pollutants.
KQED: There’s a Concer-Causing Chemical in My Drinking Water, But California Isn’t Regulating It
If you are drinking tap water, it’s likely that it contains chlorine or chloramines, fluoride, heavy metals, perhaps radiation, and unknown contaminants of various sorts.
Your best protection is to get a water filter that removes a broad spectrum of known pollutants and unknown contaminants.
The water filter I use in my own home is made by Pure Effect. It’s state of the art filtration removes just about everything that might be in your water that you don’t want to put in your body.
Learn more about Pure Effect water filters here…
